Wi2Me: A Mobile Sensing Platform for Wireless Heterogeneous Networks

German Castignani (1, 2) , Alejandro Martin Lampropulos (2) , Alberto Blanc (1, 2) , Nicolas Montavont (3, 2)

1 REOP - Réseaux d'opérateurs
2 RSM - Département Réseaux, Sécurité et Multimédia
3 OCIF - Objets communicants pour l'Internet du futur

With the increasing popularity of WiFi technologies, mobile users may now take advantage of heterogeneous wireless networks. In contrast to cellular networks, community networks, based on sharing WiFi residential accesses, show a high access points density in urban areas but uncontrolled performance. We present Wi2Me Traces Explorer, an extensible mobile sensing application to characterize current deployments. This application allows any mobile user to gather not only access point locations but also their performance in terms of bandwidth, link quality and successful connection rate.

Mots clés: Wireless Heterogeneous Networks; Performance Evaluation; Android

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

German Castignani, Alejandro Martin Lampropulos, Alberto Blanc, Nicolas Montavont. Wi2Me: A Mobile Sensing Platform for Wireless Heterogeneous Networks. ICDCSW 2012 : IEEE International Workshop on Sensing, Networking, and Computing with Smartphones, Jun 2012, Macao, China. pp.108 - 113, ⟨10.1109/ICDCSW.2012.36⟩. ⟨hal-01164306⟩